Tekla Structures 2018i fixlist

Tekla Structures
2018i
Tekla Structures

Fixes

Defect number Development area Description
TSAC-1261 Concrete components In Mesh bars, the bars are now created around all holes.
TSAC-1278 Concrete components The Rebar end anchor and Rebar coupler components have been changed to work correctly with rebar sets in curved cases, when multiple small leg faces form a curve. Previously, only some of the couplers or end anchors were created.


TSAC-1390 Concrete components Mesh bars now works correctly when the primary bars are set to the global X direction.
TSAC-1421 Concrete components Previously, if the saved property file of an existing Sandwich wall window was missing, the component created very big cut parts in modification. This caused a high computer load and Tekla Structures did not respond for a while. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-1457 Concrete components In Wall layout, when using Geometry strip for detailing offsets, finding the edges now works properly.
TSAC-1473 Concrete components Concrete console (110): Cut around anchor rod is now correctly created when using HII profile as secondary part.
TSAC-1479 Concrete components In Mesh bars, adding hooks to primary bars no longer affects the cover thickness of secondary bars.
TSAC-1517 Concrete components In Rectangular column reinforcement (83), you can now define bar cranking also at the column bottom. The length of the crank can now be defined using a sloped dimension, as an alternative to the vertical dimension.
TSAC-1530 Concrete components Wall layout has been changed so that an opening which is not created for all layers is not taken into account when the layout is divided (by seams) into individual walls.
TSAC-1568 Concrete components Previously, Wall layout elementation created one extra seam at the end of the layout when the elementation was based on crane location and/or weight. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-1598 Concrete components In Wall layout, picking points using Geometry strip now takes into account the Select components / Select objects in components selection switches. When selecting a face with the Select components switch active, all co-linear faces in Wall layout are highlighted.
TSAC-1611 Concrete components Floor layout has been changed to work properly and split a slab in situations where the break line ends to the slab edge.
TSAC-1639 Concrete components In Concrete console (111), the console is now correctly created when there is another component placed on the same level.
TSAC-1667 Concrete components In Concrete console (110), anchor rods are now correctly placed when the secondary part is not placed in line with the main part.
TSAC-1675 Concrete components In Wall panel reinforcement, in some cases, the edge bars were not created if the edge contained a recess. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-1678 Concrete components In Concrete console (110), the bottom tube profile is now created correctly when using an HII profile as the secondary part.
TSAC-1695 Concrete components In Detailing manager, you can now use Strip footing reinforcement (75) to detail a structure. Previously, Strip footing reinforcement (75) was not added to the Component box in the rules when you tried to add it.
TSAC-1717 Concrete components In Mesh bars, when direct modification was used for rotation, the reinforcement did not always cover the whole slab area. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-1720 Concrete components In Wall layout connector, Wall layout elementation and Wall layout opening, the Component attributes list now correctly shows the attribute files.
TSAC-1723 Concrete components In Concrete console (110), you can now create column cut out inclined around a T-profile.
TSAC-1740 Concrete components Now Publish in catalog works also with Floor layout and Wall layout.
TSAC-1753 Concrete components In Wall layout opening, you can now again select the file of saved settings for an opening component on the contextual toolbar and in the Detailing attributes list in the Wall layout opening dialog box.
TSAC-1780 Concrete components Reinforced concrete stair (95): on the Parameters tab, there is a new Start point position option to handle the start point position of the polygon shape of the stairs.
TSAC-1827 Concrete components In Floor layout, break lines and detailing strips were deleted when using Tekla Model Sharing or when using the Repair model commands, as break lines and detailing strips did not create any objects in the model. Because of the missing break lines and/or detailing strips, the next modification of Floor layout created slabs without breaks and/or details. After this fix the break line and detailing strips create dummy construction lines and thus they will be preserved by Tekla Model Sharing and the Repair model commands.
TSAC-1895 Concrete components In Corbels and recesses (82), when using the option to take cuts into account, the corbels are now correctly added to the main part.
TSAC-1910 Concrete components In Concrete console (110), you can now select the default console thickness from the main part or from the secondary part.
TSAC-1938 Concrete components (83) Rectangular column reinforcement: on the Stirrups tab, you can now specify custom Overlap length if you have selected U-shaped stirrup. 
TSAC-635 Concrete components The Mesh bars dialog box has been resized to better fit on smaller screens.
TSAC-642 Concrete components In Mesh bars and Mesh bars by area, there is now a new option Create cuts around selected parts on the Detailing tab. You can use it to cut reinforcement using parts. The cutting parts are defined by a selection filter. Previously, you could only use existing cuts to cut reinforcement.
TSAC-674 Concrete components In Wall panel reinforcement, when creating a single layer of reinforcement, the C1 cover thickness setting does not affect the offset anymore.
TSAC-690 Concrete components In Mesh bars by area, changing the value of the Up direction option no longer causes rebars with incorrect length to be created.
TSAC-724 Concrete components Reinforced concrete stair (95) has the following improvements on the Bar H tab:
- Shape 51 has been added to the distribution steel options.
- There is a new secondary option to define a different rebar shape at a specific position.
TSAC-785 Concrete components Floor layout seam modification has been changed so that when dragging any of the measure line ends towards the line-up direction, the layout is adjusted at the line-up starting end so that the measure end will be at the dragged position. Earlier, the measure was changed but also re-aligned according to the current line-up.

In addition, the other measures are dynamically updated to show the actual changed measures. Earlier, the other measures were static and not updated during the dragging.
TSAC-817 Concrete components In Mesh bars, the mesh is now created correctly regardless of the complexity of its polygon.
TSAC-856 Concrete components Detailing manager now uses Pad footing reinforcement (77) when selected in the Detailing manager dialog box.
TSAC-913 Concrete components Rebar coupler and end anchor components now set the value IfcMechanicalFastener for the IFC Entity attribute for parts and assemblies created by these components.
TSAC-950 Concrete components In Round column reinforcement (82), the main bars are now correctly distributed.
TSAC-981 Concrete components In Corbel reinforcement (81), additional rebars now have identical dimensions.
TSAC-1293 Steel components In Column - 2 beam (14), the Bolt standard for Bolts 4 is now correctly applied.
TSAC-1304 Steel components In Bolted moment connection (134), the gap between the stiffener and the main part web is now correctly created when connecting to the main part web.
TSAC-1363 Steel components In Circular base plate (1052), you can now create plate washers along a circle.
TSAC-1364 Steel components In Simple clip angle 2 (82), cutting the flange thickness now affects the rounding radius of the profile as well.
TSAC-1365 Steel components In Shear Pl to tube column (47), cutting the flange thickness now affects the rounding radius of the profile as well.
TSAC-1366 Steel components In H/V Shear plate (64), H/V sloped shear plate (29) and H/V Shallow shear plate (30), cutting the flange thickness now affects the rounding radius of the profile as well.
TSAC-1367 Steel components In Spiral stair (S68), the stairs are now created correctly when input points 2 and 3 are not located on the top of each other.
TSAC-1368 Steel components

Railing beam to plane (89) now works correctly with asymmetrical profiles.

TSAC-1434 Steel components In Stiffened base plate (1014), the Grout part name is not longer taken from the L profile, flange part name.
TSAC-1439 Steel components In Tube gusset (20), you can now set the bolt assembly type separately for the bolts on the gusset side and the bracing side.
TSAC-1447 Steel components In U.S. Seat connection (72), slotted holes are now correctly applied for bolts.
TSAC-1482 Steel components In Wraparound gusset (58), the end gusset bolted to the beam or column does not disappear anymore.
TSAC-1485 Steel components In Generation of purlins (50), the Use extra purlin positioning option on the Parts tab now uses floating point numbers (numbers with decimals) instead of integers.
TSAC-1501 Steel components

In Two side endplate (34), the number of bolts is no longer modified when you clear 

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 all the check boxes for the settings in the component dialog box.

TSAC-1509 Steel components In HSS Brace special (66), you can now define the connection plate assembly position number.
TSAC-1536 Steel components In Two sided clip angle (143), the deletion of bolts now works correctly.
TSAC-1559 Steel components In Base plate (1004), the deletion of custom components now works correctly.
TSAC-1560 Steel components Stanchions (S76) no longer crashes when a user defines a long part prefix.
TSAC-1578 Steel components In Bolted cap plate (27), the dimensions entered for stiffener chamfers are now correctly applied.
TSAC-1604 Steel components In Clip angle (141), the clip angles are now positioned correctly when the secondary part is sloped.
TSAC-1610 Steel components In (142) Two sided end plate, you can now create compensation flange plates.
TSAC-1622 Steel components In Railing plane to plane (90), the connected parts are now correctly cut.
TSAC-1635 Steel components Bolted gusset (11): previously, sometimes there was a gap between the gusset plate and the main part. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-1719 Steel components Previously, there was an error when using Bolted gusset (11) on an inclined main part. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-1734 Steel components In Seating (30), bolts are now created correctly when using plate profiles.
TSAC-1755 Steel components (14) Joining plates, (27) Stiffened end plate, (37) Seating cap, (39) Seating, (65) Partial stiff end plate, (142) Two sided end plate, (144) End plate: on the Holes tab, you can now specify the bolt type for holes.
TSAC-1770 Steel components In U.S. Base plate (1047), the bolts are now correctly positioned when you define the rotation and the horizontal offset.
TSAC-1772 Steel components New notch (49) no longer causes a solid error when created.
TSAC-1874 Steel components In Truss (S78), the Material property boxes in component properties did not work in the US Imperial environment. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-1922 Steel components In Create hole around part (92), holes were not created correctly around certain profiles. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-244 Steel components In Bolted moment connection (134), you can now cut the flange plates parallel to the main part when the secondary part is sloped.
TSAC-272 Steel components Haunch (40): Bolts group is now correctly created when you specify to create an Upper bolt plate.
TSAC-293 Steel components In Shear plate simple (146), the values for manual notch control are now correctly applied when the secondary part is skewed.
TSAC-302 Steel components In Stiffeners (1003) and in Multiple stiffeners (1064), the gap between stiffener and beam is now correctly applied when stiffeners are created at the beam end.
TSAC-916 Steel components Stanchion double plate (87) now works correctly regardless of how the stanchion is rotated.
TSAC-986 Steel components Bolted gusset (11) now has improved functionality when connecting twin profiles created as plates.
TTSD-11585 Organizer Organizer does not write headers and footers to Excel pages anymore. Users can now define their own headers and footers in Excel.
TTSD-15836 Organizer Previously, Organizer synchronization did not notice when a rebar set was modified by using direct modification or by deleting rebars from the rebar set. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-17482 Organizer In some cases, parent category could have had references to non-existing subcategories which prevented the opening of Organizer. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-18179 Organizer Sometimes, the filters used in Organizer categories were not synchronized correctly if only the parent of an object was modified in the model. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-1203 Import, export, interoperability Import of text files with layout points did not work correctly if you used Tekla Structures in any other language than English. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-1347 Import, export, interoperability NC: Now the bolt diameter is used instead of top diameter when checking to convert the countersunk holes to IK.
TSAC-1665 Import, export, interoperability Duplicate bolts on a part (bolts in the same location as another bolt) are now ignored in NC DSTV export.
The tolerated distance for bolts to be considered duplicates can be adjusted with the XS_BOLT_DUPLICATE_TOLERANCE advanced option.
TSAC-781 Import, export, interoperability NC DSTV: Edge chamfers now work in weld preparation.
TTSD-11756 Import, export, interoperability In drawing DWG export, if you select to export based on a base point, the resulting DWG is now rotated according to the base point angle, which was not the case previously.
TTSD-12595 Import, export, interoperability Exporting a drawing to DWG now sets the plot date when XS_DISABLE_DRAWING_PLOT_DATE is set to FALSE.
TTSD-13100 Import, export, interoperability Models with heavy memory use could quite often crash to TeklaStructures_application.dll. One reason for the crashes was reference models and changing their visibility from hidden to visible. Another reason was duplicate progress dialog boxes. Now there is only one progress dialog box to avoid the crash situation. This also fixes similar change detection issues.
TTSD-13669 Import, export, interoperability When you copied multiple drawing views to other drawing views, the view relationships could sometimes get broken, and drawing export no longer worked, for example. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-14307 Import, export, interoperability Tekla Structures now contains SketchUp plug-in version 1.57.
TTSD-14438 Import, export, interoperability In drawing DWG export, exporting using basepoints now follows the IFC base point export logic.
TTSD-14573 Import, export, interoperability If you had the Select objects in components switch activated during DGN reference model clash check, no clashes were found. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-14651 Import, export, interoperability Logging in to Trimble Connector now works again.
TTSD-15055 Import, export, interoperability Load transfer from Tekla Structures to Robot has been improved, for example in cases when loads are applied to area edges and when point loads or line loads are applied to areas.
TTSD-15724 Import, export, interoperability Loading a reference model update sometimes crashed Tekla Structures. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-16574 Import, export, interoperability The shape import now supports an improved workflow where the import step cleans and fixes the imported geometry better than before. The result state is stored in the Shape catalog. When the shape is accessed at model reopening, it is read with the fastest possible method.
TTSD-14884 Templates and reports If a graphical template has a picture with a rule, and the rule says "no picture", Tekla Structures no longer shows and error message.
TTSD-16927 Templates and reports There is a new template attribute for surfaces: ATTACHED_TO
The values are:
0 (part)
1 (pour)
TTSD-6916 Templates and reports Reports now show default values for option list user-defined attributes (UDA) that do not have a value.
TSAC-1323 Drawings The Rebar layering marker macro no longer crashes.
TSAC-1586 Drawings In Rebar pull-out picture and marking, the additional mark 1 is now created in a right position.
TSAC-1624 Drawings Rebar group marking and Rebar group dimensioning: Rebar marks now show the length precision correctly.
TSAC-1911 Drawings Rebar group dimensioning: Mark 2 that contains text in a frame is now positioned correctly.
TSAC-873 Drawings Rebar group dimensioning has the following changes:
  • You can now dimension curved rebars.
  • The application now checks whether the rebar group axis lies on the XY-plane of the view. If the axis of the rebar group does not lie on the drawing 2D plane, the application stops and nothing is created.
Rebar group marking now recognizes the rebar position well.
TTSD-10171 Drawings In drawings, integrated dimensioning sometimes created duplicate dimensions when there was a cut touching the center point of the part. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-10604 Drawings View shortening was not taking into account studs. This has now been fixed, and the studs are shown correctly in shortened drawing views.
TTSD-10928 Drawings The graying out of dialog box options for drawing rebar meshes has been improved.
TTSD-11121 Drawings Earlier, curved section views did not work for spiral beams, for example, when you wanted to unfold a spiral stairs drawing. Now the curved section views also work for spiral beams.
TTSD-11243 Drawings Single part drawings that were manually included in assembly drawings could lose some dimensions when you updated the drawing. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-11419 Drawings Previously, line types in some hatches and symbols were incorrect when printing using the Print Drawings dialog box. This has now been fixed. Note that this problem did not concern the so called "old" printing functionality.
TTSD-11444 Drawings Merged part marks will now behave better if some of the information was changed since the drawing was last opened.
TTSD-11459 Drawings Lines with blank line type were printed as solid lines. They now no longer appear in the printed output.
TTSD-11513 Drawings Sometimes a  pull-out picture could disappear from the mark during a drawing update. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-11568 Drawings When editing drawings with the Drafter license and using the Draw polygon command, the backspace key now works for undoing or removing the last selected point of the polygon.
TTSD-11601, TTSD-14938 Drawings In the Dimension properties dialog box, the Background mask setting on the Appearance tab is now correctly applied when clicking Apply.
TTSD-11696 Drawings Sometimes, the Copy command in drawings could leave the cursor visible on screen. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-11759 Drawings There is now a better message shown in the drawing DWG export if the drawing is not up to date: "Drawing is not up to date, update the drawing first".
TTSD-11820 Drawings Previously, drawing views were sometimes jumping when moving them. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-11838 Drawings Moment connection symbol in Drawing tools now can use its translation file.
TTSD-11881 Drawings Resizing text files in drawings was not working. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-12282 Drawings When modifying view level bolt mark settings, bolt marks that have been moved (placing setting set to Fixed) are no longer recreated in a different place.
TTSD-12496 Drawings Merged rebar set marks now show position numbers and rebar quantity.
TTSD-12551 Drawings Earlier, if you set a drawing table layout to empty and it was previously not empty, the previous tables were still visible. This has now been fixed, and the previous tables are no longer visible.
TTSD-12717, 124327 Drawings When resizing a 2D arc in a drawing by dragging with mouse, the arc now retains its start point and end point.
TTSD-12839 Drawings Reference model section edges are now drawn only to the front facing sections in drawings.
TTSD-12888 Drawings In some of the drawing mode dialog boxes the on/off switch at the bottom was not working. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-13153 Drawings An application error occurred when you used the backspace key on the keyboard to cancel the previously picked points while creating a polygon or a polyline. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-13160 Drawings Sometimes, rebar dimension marks could disappear. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-13304 Drawings

Search results are now saved as before.

TTSD-13317 Drawings The Print Drawings dialog box did not open drawings that had been deleted and recreated. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-13347 Drawings In some complex cases the part protection area was incorrect in drawings. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-13565 Drawings Sometimes linking a view to a drawing from another drawing, and then moving the same view further to a third drawing using the command Move to drawing caused an ID conflict resulting to an infinite loop. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-13568 Drawings The drawing mode keyboard shortcuts F4 - F7 did not work, now they do. If these shortcuts are not shown in the Keyboard shortcuts dialog box, you need to restore each of the commands using the Restore button, or delete the keyboardshortcuts.xml from the local AppData folder and restart Tekla Structures.
TTSD-13595 Drawings When XS_​CREATE_​ROUND_​HOLE_​DIMENSIONS is set to TRUE, the zero point of the dimension measuring the round hole center is now located on the main part edge rather than the assembly edge.
TTSD-13658 Drawings Mark aligning is now able to better align more marks close to the view center.
TTSD-13676 Drawings Mark location calculation for marks that are along the part edges in drawings is now slightly more robust.
TTSD-14042 Drawings Previously, if you had manually merged some marks in a drawing, they were sometimes changed unexpectedly if you changed the view settings. This should no longer happen.
TTSD-14106 Drawings Dragging of mark handles did not always work correctly. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-14140 Drawings For rebar sets, lines were not hidden in drawings for bars behind other bars. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-14193 Drawings The protection area for the first mark with template content is now correctly placed when opening a drawing.
TTSD-14479 Drawings Hiding parts in a drawing was unnecessarily hiding templates as well. This no longer happens.
TTSD-14543 Drawings Radial rebar sets that are grouped, now correctly show a radial dimension mark, as per the rebar groups.
TTSD-14552 Drawings Sometimes rebar mark base point could be in incorrect location in a section view. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-14657 Drawings In drawings and printouts, the imported DWG text blocks are now shown with the current background color, and the text with foreground color. Previously, both were gray.
TTSD-14692 Drawings Bent mesh pull-outs no longer take into account the cross bars in the longitudinal bar leg lengths.
TTSD-14765 Drawings Previously, if an .rtf file containing a table was inserted inside a view, the table was not displayed correctly, now it is.
TTSD-14828 Drawings Views where parts had multiple cuts are now handled better in the paper space of the DWG export.
TTSD-14835 Drawings Drawing time did not take into account daylight saving time. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-14902 Drawings Previously, the current base point in the model affected the drawing _BASEPOINT template field values. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-14905 Drawings The number of objects selected is now updated on the status bar when selecting all marks or all weld marks of the selected objects in a drawing.
TTSD-14954 Drawings Tekla Structure no longer freezes when you use the Arrange Drawing Objects (Freeplace) command on dimensions or dimension sets in a drawing.
TTSD-14958 Drawings The filtering category check in drawing object level settings filters now works as in Tekla Structures 2017 and earlier versions when you define multiple rules, and recognizes the difference between different object types.
TTSD-15003 Drawings The applied Location by value of GA drawing view setting was not used during drawing creation. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-15093 Drawings Now setting the option Welds in hidden parts to None in weld mark view properties hides the welds in the drawing view.
TTSD-15120 Drawings Weld marks were sometimes created for hidden welds even though the view property Welds in hidden parts was set to None. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-15160 Drawings Rebar sets could not be removed from the drawing by change in depth. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-15250 Drawings There was a problem inserting level marks to drawing views that were not exactly aligned to the global plane. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-15254, TTSD-16744 Drawings The behavior of the level marks in the section views of the cloned drawings was fixed. If Datum point for elevations is set to View plane in view properties, section view level marks are correct. Level marks consider drawing elevation only when the advanced option XS_USE_OLD_DRAWING_CREATION_SETTINGS is set to TRUE.
TTSD-15266 Drawings Previously, when you were creating a polygon or a polyline in a drawing and if you were panning the screen during the process, extra points were sometimes  added to the polyline or polygon. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-15323 Drawings Grid filtering works now in drawings as well.
TTSD-15614 Drawings Rebar dimension line now works better for those rebar groups that do not have a planar shape, such as a 3d shape.
TTSD-15615 Drawings Previously, if XS_ENABLE_REBAR_MARK_LEADER_LINE_BASE_POINT_OPTIMIZATION was set to TRUE, Tekla Structures optimized the base point location after you manually dragged the base point into different location. Therefore, in some cases, the base point would move to a different location than the location you dragged it to.
TTSD-15665 Drawings The rebar extrema is now calculated by thickening each leg by the bar radius.
TTSD-15787 Drawings Sometimes weld contour lines in drawings were not exported or printed. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-15855 Drawings The recess with a hole inside is now also handled the same way as any other complex shape and displayed correctly in drawings.
TTSD-16127 Drawings When pours were used as neighboring part in a drawing, settings for the main pour were overriding settings used for neighboring parts when modifying the drawing. Now Modify keeps and updates properties of pours as neighboring parts to correct values.
TTSD-16188 Drawings When you added a level mark using the command Add level mark, the mark was placed in an incorrect location. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-16192 Drawings Now the non-solid breps which are partially cut by a view are not shown in drawings because the resulst are not satisfactory in certain cases. Non-solid breps which are fully inside a view are shown.
TTSD-16199 Drawings Dimension arrows were drawn to both ends of absolute dimensions. Now this has been fixed, and the dimensions are again drawn correctly to one end only. If the symbol does not have a direction, then it is drawn to both ends.
TTSD-16359 Drawings Subassemblies did not get position dimensions in assembly drawings. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-16467 Drawings Dimension background setting Transparent/Opaque was not working on the drawing level. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-16489 Drawings When you added a symbol in a drawing, it was not placed in the center of the point you picked. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-16629 Drawings Sometimes there was a crash during automatic cloning if there were associative notes in the drawing. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-16648 Drawings Starting from 2018 version, radial dimension arrow symbols were following the dimension symbol style that was defined for general dimension symbols. Radial dimension arrow symbols can now only be set to arrow type symbols.
TTSD-16979 Drawings Grid filtering in drawings now works in selection filters as well.
TTSD-17069 Drawings A memory leak occurred at drawing opening when you had set the advanced option XS_HIDDEN_LINES_UNHIDE_EMBEDDED to TRUE. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-17148 Drawings Sometimes Tekla Structures application error occurred when you had set Show openings/recess symbol to Yes in drawing view properties and you opened a drawing of a curved structure. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-17238 Drawings In some cases, using filters in drawings would incorrectly filter out grids. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-17274 Drawings Tekla Structures sometimes crashed when you used the Adjust location option for a group of curved rebars. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-17436 Drawings Views inside the single-part views were incorrectly modified when the layout of the assembly drawing was changed. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-17454 Drawings Column marks in the US environments are now placed better by default.
TTSD-17485 Drawings Previously, single-part drawings did not contain any dimensions if XS_ASSEMBLY_POSITION_NUMBER_FORMAT_STRING contained part UDAs. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-17577 Drawings Educational license: previously, you could not export assembly drawings to a DWG file. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-17601 Drawings Rebars with outline representation are now drawn on top of hatches like other rebar representation types.
TTSD-18007 Drawings

Previously, drawing views could get corrupted when moved from one drawing to another. This has now been fixed.

Also, some curved lines with a very big radius could change to straight lines in drawings when custom presentation was used, or when printing drawings.  This has now been fixed.

TTSD-4123 Drawings Slanted grids are now visible in section GA drawings.
TTSD-6540 Drawings When you open a drawing, you can see the progress in a status message box. One of the messages has been changed from "Updating annotation" to
"Updating annotations in drawing", which more clearly tells what is happening.
TTSD-7521 Drawings Some rebars that had incorrect settings in drawings, were not visible at all. This has now been fixed, and the incorrect setting can be manually fixed.
TTSD-8361 Drawings Sometimes rebar mesh mark could be created to an incorrect location, especially for bent meshes. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-9550 Drawings When printing drawings, graphics imported from DWG did not reflect the pen widths in the color table. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-16923 System and options Previously, if you set the autosave interval less than 2, autosave was disabled. This has now been changed so that the smallest accepted value for the autosave interval is 2, both for modeling and for drawings.

If you try to enter a value smaller than 2, Tekla Structures automatically changes the value to 2.
TTSD-11276 Tekla Model Sharing The user is now more clearly informed in the rare cases where the user tries to log in to the Sharing service while being a member in several different Tekla Model Sharing organizations.
TTSD-12076 Tekla Model Sharing In a shared model, modified objects with rebar sets are now shared correctly. Previously, for example, if user 1 modified the leg face of a rebar set in a column and wrote out, and user 2 modified a different leg face in the same rebar set and then read in, the changes made by user 1 did not override the changes user 2 had made to the rebar set. This does not happen anymore.
TTSD-12341 Tekla Model Sharing In Tekla Model Sharing, part modifications caused by conflicting part cut moves are now removed when reading in.
TTSD-12417 Tekla Model Sharing In Tekla Model Sharing, manual assignments of rebar sets to pour units are now shared correctly. Previously, manual assignments were not shared if rebar sets had first been automatically assigned to pour units in the model.
TTSD-13362 Tekla Model Sharing In Tekla Model Sharing, conflicts in rebar set numbering have now been fixed.
TTSD-13562, TTSD-11641 Tekla Model Sharing Deleting a moved view or changing the section or detail symbol no longer causes the immediate update of the other drawing file. Drawing status is changed instead, and it is updated when the drawing is opened or updated.
TTSD-14133 Tekla Model Sharing In Tekla Model Sharing, components added to the Applications & components catalog were not visible in the correct place and thumbnails were now shown in the catalog when shared. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-14321 Tekla Model Sharing In Tekla Model Sharing, there could in some cases be numbering changes when a user read in, even if no changes had been made in the local model. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-14342 Tekla Model Sharing In Tekla Model Sharing, in cases where several users concurrently defined parametric profiles with variable cross sections and the changes were read in, the parts that were using variable cross section profiles were modified in the local models.
This service pack now fixes this issue. We recommend that all users of a shared model use the same Tekla Structures service pack when working with the model.
TTSD-14610 Tekla Model Sharing In Tekla Model Sharing, numbering conflicts were not always reliably resolved if there were many incoming packets. This could cause numbering to be unexpectedly reset.
The modelsharing.log now includes information about numbering conflict resolution. The GUIDS of objects that have errors in numbering are listed in certain cases.
TTSD-15100 Tekla Model Sharing Previously, rebar sets could be marked as modified in the changes list in a shared model even if a user had not modified them. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-15209 Tekla Model Sharing Previously, some profiles were not imported correctly, which caused issues, such as unexpected object updates, in Tekla Model Sharing. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-15860 Tekla Model Sharing An issue that could cause Tekla Structures to crash while using Tekla Model Sharing with a model that contained pours and pour breaks has now been fixed.
TTSD-16071 Tekla Model Sharing In Tekla Model Sharing, read in previously failed if two incoming files with different names were changed to have the same name after Unicode Compatibility Decomposition normalization. Such files could be ascii symbols and corresponding fullwidth symbols. Now Tekla Structures reads in such packages and tracks both, or more, such clashing files.
TTSD-16253 Tekla Model Sharing Certain Unicode characters in file names (such as, Kelvin symbol 'K') caused the Tekla Model Sharing write out to fail. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-1648 Reinforcement Rebar shape manager now shows rebar shapes correctly. Previously, certain shapes were recognized as curved even if the shape was a normal polygonal shape.
TSAC-955 Reinforcement Rebar shape manager has been changed so that the formula value is properly calculated and shown also when the formula contains any ‘if-then-else-endif’ statements.
TSAC-956 Reinforcement Rebar shape manager has been changed so that when any custom property is used in any formula and the custom property value is not set (= has ‘empty’ value), the numerical value zero is used (instead of the numerical value -2147483648).

Note that within the shape code rules the value is still the empty value (= not set value).
TTSD-11214 Reinforcement In some cases, when creating planar rebar sets, the guideline was not placed in the correction location. This has now been fixed so that the guideline extends across the selected part or pour face.
TTSD-11594 Reinforcement Collinear secondary guidelines are now better handled by just using the primary guideline.
TTSD-11783 Reinforcement The bending radius defined for a rebar set is now correctly set for rebar end detail modifiers in the property pane and in the contextual toolbar. This has been fixed for standard hooks.
TTSD-12555 Reinforcement Tapered rebar group dimensions are now reported correctly when the first bar is excluded.
TTSD-13260 Reinforcement The secondary guideline spacing zone properties of rebar sets are now disabled when you have selected to inherit spacings from the primary guideline.
TTSD-13605 Reinforcement Inquiring a single rebar set bar now shows the user-defined attributes inherited from the parent rebar set and modifiers.
TTSD-15449 Reinforcement In rebar sets, groups of bars must now be adjacent, unless some splitter properties make the bars alternating.
TTSD-15782 Reinforcement In rebar sets, when splitters are used, the lapping side is now kept consistent throughout the whole rebar set.
TTSD-16635 Reinforcement In the property pane for rebar set property modifiers, if you selected the bending radius from the list, the value was marked as invalid. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-17083 Reinforcement Object representation settings now again work for rebar sets.
TTSD-17173 Reinforcement Rebar sets can now be selected by clicking on a row in a report that contains a GUID and a "GUID:" label. Use the selection switches to control your selection: Select single rebars to select an individual rebar, Select rebar groups to select a rebar group, and Select rebar sets to select rebar sets.
TTSD-9229 Reinforcement HOOK_END and HOOK_START are now correctly reported regardless of the ScheduleDimensionRoundingAccuracy set in rebar_config.inp.
TTSD-10677 Modeling The Modify Profile Catalog dialog box now always shows all profiles. When selecting a profile for a part in the Select Profile dialog box, the Show all profiles check box is now by default selected.
TTSD-10876 Modeling Creating spiral beams using numeric input and middle mouse button works again.
TTSD-11067 Modeling

Filtering was not working on some specific properties, such as the Preliminary mark property under the Part category. This has now been fixed.

TTSD-11469 Modeling Unselected parts are now correctly shown as sticks in the model view when you hold down the Ctrl key, right-click and select the Show Only Selected command. When using the Hide command, the selected objects are now also shown as sticks when you right-click and select Hide.
TTSD-11775 Modeling Previously, temporary numeric identifiers could be incorrectly handled when using the Save as command. This caused Save as to fail for some models and Tekla Structures displayed the error message "Model in memory is corrupted". This has now been fixed.
TTSD-12773 Modeling Modifying the flat section (plate) of a bent plate does not change the side boundaries anymore if the side boundary is not tapered.
TTSD-12813 Modeling If reopening the model during multi-user save fails, Tekla Structures closes the model and correctly releases the multi-user lock.
An advanced option, XS_MULTIUSER_SAVE_REOPEN_DISABLE_COMPACTION, can be now added to the user.ini file to disable the compaction during multi-user save. Users that frequently get the error "The command could not be completed, restart Tekla Structures and try again", can set XS_MULTIUSER_SAVE_REOPEN_DISABLE_COMPACTION to TRUE to help prevent the error.
TTSD-12821 Modeling The Logical weld property now works in reports. Previously, the result in a report was always empty. 
TTSD-12894 Modeling Drawing list was refreshed and all drawings were always shown on multi-user model after save. Now visible drawings are kept only.
TTSD-13231 Modeling Now the values in property pane update automatically when you change the work plane.
TTSD-13499 Modeling When importing .tsc files created with Tekla Structures 2017i or older to the shape catalog, previously the geometry representation was imported as .xml files. This happened by copying the file from .tsc (= geometry xml + metadata). Now Tekla Structures makes a conversion for the geometry .xml to exist as compressed .tez files in the \ShapeGeometries folder.
TTSD-14092 Modeling The bent plate radius arrow handle now snaps to sensible values when dragging. The arrow itself also follows the camera angle. These improvements make it easier to modify the radius by dragging.
TTSD-14206 Modeling Numbering of selected objects could fail when a cast unit contained rebar sets. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-14589 Modeling When modifying reinforcing bars in the property pane, Tekla Structures will now display a warning message if the resulting reinforcement geometry is invalid.
TTSD-14909 Modeling In some cases, translated column headers in dialog boxes could cause issues in some languages. This happened in Russian in the Design group numbering application, for example. The column headers are now shown in English as previously.
TTSD-14950 Modeling Previously, direct modification could stop working when Organizer was open. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-15088 Modeling PHASE.NAME for rebars now returns the name of the rebar phase. Previously, PHASE.NAME for rebars returned the name of the father part phase.
TTSD-15232 Modeling Previously, Tekla Structures displayed an error message in the sketch editor when you used the keyboard to enter a position. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-15293 Modeling Previously, very complex interaction of multiple objects with multiple cuts caused Tekla Structures to crash if you modified the model in the multi-user mode and set XS_ENABLE_POUR_MANAGEMENT to TRUE, and then saved the model. This happened at least in the SE Asia environment. The issue has now been fixed.
TTSD-15369 Modeling When cast-in-place concrete parts are hidden or made transparent with the Hide or Show only selected command, the pours made of the parts now stay hidden/transparent when changing the view setting to pour view. Also, when using the Hide or Show only selected command on a pour object, their cast-in-place parts now stay hidden/transparent when switching from pour view to part view.
TTSD-15829 Modeling Previously, some template properties, such as CC_MAX, were not working in filters. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-15833 Modeling Umlaut and multi-byte characters in item properties are now supported when importing Tekla Warehouse items to Tekla Structures.
TTSD-16278 Modeling Using the Show only selected command on a pour unit now shows the rebar set rebars in the selected pour unit only. Previously, if there were multiple pour units containing rebar sets and you selected and used Show only selected on one of the pour units, all rebars were shown, even those that were not in the selected pour unit.
TTSD-16401 Modeling Previously, when you cut several objects at once with an identical cut, a warning was displayed for each of the cuts. This has now been fixed, and no warning is displayed.
TTSD-16717 Modeling Using the Hide command on a pour unit now hides the rebar set rebars in the selected pour unit only. Previously, if there were multiple pour units containing rebar sets and you selected and used Hide on one of the pour units, all rebars were hidden, even those that were not in the selected pour unit.
TTSD-16833 Modeling Previously, the rebars in a rebar set did not appear in a GA drawing if the bar group spanned a pour break. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-16860 Modeling Previously, Tekla Structures could crash when splitting polygon plates. This has now been fixed
TTSD-17029 Modeling The naming conventions of the 3D products in Tekla Warehouse have been improved.
The naming now complies with the following scheme:
3D product name in Tekla Warehouse = Item name shown in the property pane in Tekla Structures
3D product code in Tekla Warehouse = Component name shown in the Applications & components catalog
Geometry file name (without extension) = Shape name shown in the Shape Catalog dialog box
TTSD-17261 Modeling Previously, saving the model sometimes failed after a reference model was deleted. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-17414 Modeling Rendering of fonts in the model view is now faster for the first time the font is used.
TTSD-17603 Modeling You can now enter more than one line of Reference text for welds in the property pane.
TTSD-7206 Modeling Previously, roles did not work when using the Japanese environment on computer with an English system locale, causing Tekla Structures to crash. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-7554 Modeling

In a multi-user model, the selected objects now stay selected when the model is saved. Also, the numbering of the selected objects now works correctly when synchronizing with the master model.

TTSD-9883 Modeling Tekla Structures no longer snaps to the view rotation center.
SOLD-606 Installation The performance of the Partner installation has been improved.
TTSD-12571 Installation Extensions (.tsep) that were correctly signed during a certificate's validity period are now installed even when the certificate has expired. Extensions signed when the certificate has expired are regarded as having invalid signatures and are not installed.
TTSD-11644 Analysis and design The parts and loads of the selected component are now included in the analysis model when creating an analysis model for Selected parts and loads, and when using the Add selected objects command in the Analysis & Design Models dialog box.
TTSD-12558 Analysis and design Seismic acceleration curve data is now loaded to the Analysis Model Properties dialog box.
TTSD-12610 Analysis and design The selection switches for loads, analysis parts, nodes, and rigid links are now available on the Selecting toolbar, not on the separate Analysis selecting toolbar anymore. The selection switches for analysis parts, nodes, and rigid links are only visible when an analysis model is active. Also, the selection switches for bolts, welds, reinforcement, surface treatment, surfaces, and pour breaks are hidden when an analysis model is active.
TTSD-12633 Analysis and design You can now report rigid links with the new ANALYSIS_RIGID_LINK content type. The following template attributes are available: CONTENTTYPE, ID, GUID, ANALYSIS_MODEL_NAME, TYPE, and LENGTH. The template attributes are not available through the Open API interface.
TTSD-12766 Analysis and design Polybeam chamfers are now handled as analysis model nodes and members.
For chamfer curves, polyline approximation use depends on the analysis model properties (which can be overridden for parts) as for normal curved beams.
TTSD-13662 Analysis and design Previously, when using Robot as the design software, after saving and restarting Tekla Structures and running the analysis again the "... limit values of deflections not done" message appeared and the design could not be done. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-14062 Analysis and design Previously, when rigid link creation was disabled and two nodes were very close to each other, sometimes one of the nodes was not connecting correctly to other parts. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-14171 Analysis and design The loading of the analysis models could fail when saving a multiuser model (where model is reopened), or opening the multiuser model. If the model was saved after this failure, the analysis model was lost.
TTSD-14463 Analysis and design Previously, load groups were not correctly removed from analysis models that were created with Selected parts and loads as the option for analysis model content. This happened in two situations:
  • When you deleted a load group from the Tekla Structures model.
  • When the load group in the analysis model was referenced in load combinations, but no loads of this group were included in the analysis model.
This has now been fixed.
TTSD-14506 Analysis and design Load groups are now sorted correctly in the Load Combinations dialog box.
TTSD-14658 Analysis and design Previously, loads were not removed from the view when deleting a load group with loads. This has now been fixed.
TTSD-15004 Analysis and design Previously, analysis node numbers were drawn on top of each other or too far from the node. This does not happen anymore. The numbers of the selected nodes now have the magenta color.
TTSD-15023 Analysis and design Connectivity logic has been improved for bar to bar connections when the selected analysis application is Tekla Structural Designer.
TTSD-15111 Analysis and design Twin profiles, such as double angles, are now exported correctly from Tekla Structures to Tekla Structural Designer when exporting the analysis model with the physical model.
TTSD-15629 Analysis and design New load groups are now correctly added to the Load Combinations dialog box when a load group is modified.
TTSD-15786 Analysis and design In some situations, after deleting rigid links from the analysis model, the rigid links reappeared when rebuilding the analysis model.
TTSD-15874 Analysis and design Double-clicking a uniform load now shows the properties of the load in the Uniform Load Properties dialog box.
TTSD-16373 Analysis and design Incremental analysis model update has been improved to reduce the need for rebuilding the analysis model.
TTSD-4757 Analysis and design Exporting polybeams from Tekla Structures to Tekla Structural Designer is now possible with certain limitations. The export to Tekla Structural Designer uses the correct analysis position, but the exported alignment may not always be correct, i.e. the physical position in Tekla Structural Designer may not match the physical position in Tekla Structures.
TTSD-5591 Analysis and design Line load magnitude is now visualized correctly in the model.
TTSD-8018 Analysis and design Tekla Structures now shows a warning message when overlapping analysis bars are connected to the same analysis node.
TTSD-13213 Core In some cases, the info and warning status of log messages was switched. Now log messages are more correctly classified as warning or info messages.
TSAC-1262 Tools and components Copying and modifying the number of objects copied with an array tool by using another array tool does not make Tekla Structures to crash anymore.
TSAC-590 Tools and components Linear array tool and Radial array tool now correctly create duplicates when copying other array tool components.
TTSD-12382 Tools and components

Previously, the Applications & components catalog could crash when opening the Access advanced features menu 

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 if a directory in XS_FIRM or XS_PROJECT did not exist. This has now been fixed.

TTSD-13384 Tools and components Railings (S77), Hole Generation (32) and Cap plate do not cause Tekla Structures to crash anymore when modified.
TTSD-16497 Tools and components Translation of custom component names is now enabled in the Applications & components catalog. The names should not contain special characters or spaces for translation to work correctly.
In the .ail file used to translate the custom component name identifier of string should use this format:
"albl_" + custom component internal name
For example, if the custom component name is "MyCustomPart", in the  .ail file it should start with:
string_utf8 albl_MyCustomPart
{
    entry = ("enu", "My Custom Part");


TTSD-9079 Tools and components The duplicate Applications & components title has been removed from the Applications & components catalog.
TTSD-9676 Tools and components Clash check of DGN objects against native Tekla Structures objects has been improved.
TTSD-12296 Numbering

Starting from Tekla Structures 21.0, the Compare: Welds option in the Numbering Setup dialog box was causing uncertain numbering results. This option now works as expected.

TTSD-14900 Numbering

Previously, starting from Tekla Structures 21.1, the number of an unmodified part might change if another part became exactly the same in terms of numbering. In numbering, the unmodified part received the same number as the modified part.
Now, if both the modified part and the unmodified part have or do not have drawings, the unmodified part will keep its number. If one of the part has a drawing and the other one does not, the number of the part that has a drawing will stay the same, and the number of the part that does not have a drawing will change.

TTSD-17597 Numbering If assembly numbering series has been defined in the assembly properties, property pane no longer allows you to modify the assembly numbering in the part properties.
TTSD-13385 User interface When you have added a custom component command button to the ribbon, holding down Shift and clicking the command button now opens the custom component dialog box.
TTSD-13409 User interface The XS_DISPLAY_FILLET_EDGES advanced option does not work in DirectX views. In DirectX views, the fillet edges are never shown. In previous Tekla Structures versions, fillet edges were always shown.
TTSD-14113 User interface The property pane now keeps the properties of the selected object type visible after modification. Previously, you had to open the object type list and select the modified object type again to view the properties.
TTSD-14114 User interface

The property pane title bar now shows the number of the objects in the object type that you have currently selected from the object type list. Previously, the title bar showed the number of the objects that you had selected in the model. The number of all selected objects is shown when you click Select all in the object type list.

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TTSD-14338 User interface Property pane can now use customized files from the environment folders.
TTSD-16048 User interface Now buttons that launch a macro or a plugin are properly enabled on customized drawing ribbons.
TTSD-16108 User interface The property pane now shows the properties of steel items when assembly selection is activated.
TTSD-17373 User interface The property pane now shows the corner chamfer dimension units according to Tekla Structures unit settings.
TTSD-17844 User interface Previously, when you cleared a value in the rebar set spacing zone properties in the property pane, clicking Modify caused Tekla Structures to crash. Now the property pane automatically validates the data in the spacing zone properties and you cannot click Modify anymore.
TTSD-19062 User interface

In Tekla Structures 2018 SP2, when modifying a parametric profile in the property pane, the property pane changed the profile dimensions to some unknown numeric values.  This issue concerned both imperial units and metric decimal units, and could happen in any environment using them. This issue has now been fixed. For more details, see Parametric profiles incorrect when modified in property pane.

TTSD-9042 User interface In the assembly, cast unit, and pour property pane, the name, prefix, and start number that are defined automatically based on the main part are now shown in brackets [ ]. This is consistent with the old property dialog boxes.
TSAC-1476 Import, export, interoperability (steel) Sometimes, some bolt holes were missing from the NC data. This has now been fixed.
TSAC-1680 Import, export, interoperability (concrete)

BVBS Export: With cast units consisting of sub-assemblies only, the main part's reinforcement was included twice in the export in certain cases. This has now been fixed.

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